The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Is a Delusional Madman
NATO’s cognitive warfare and the destruction of the truth
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/12/natos-cognitive-warfare-and-destruction.html
Saker’s View of the Conflict.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/sakers-view-of-conflict.html
Omicron: 54% fewer hospitalizations and deaths compared to delta (Ontario)Fewer severe cases, vaccine failure, rapid spread, murky origins.
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There are now 2,776 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. How many have you read?
In 2021, Climate & Capitalism published 91 new articles. These attracted the most readers.
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The Cancer of Colonialism: W. Alphaeus Hunton, Black Liberation and the Daily Worker 1944-46. Edited with an Introduction by Tony Pecinovsky. Foreword by Vijay Prashad. New York: International Publishers, 2021. 353pp, $19.99.
This highly unusual book highlights a forgotten journalist and thinker, but just as much, the assiduous research and interpretations by Tony Pecinovsky, a St. Louis activist and non-academic scholar, on the history of the U.S. Left. W.A. Hunton, to quote W.E.B. Du Bois, was “the kind of absolutely honest and unselfish scholar who is apt to be trampled on and neglected in the present American world.” (p.177) Thanks to Pecinovsky, Hunton is rediscovered.
P.S. Jalaja (India), We Surely Can Change the World, 2021.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Bittersweet is the passage of this year. There have been some immense victories and some catastrophic defeats, the most terrible being the failure of the Global North countries to adopt a democratic attitude towards confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and creating equitable access to key resources, from life-saving medical equipment to vaccines. Tragically, by the end of this pandemic, we will have learnt the Greek alphabet from the variants named after its letters (Delta, Omicron), which continue to emerge.
Tailors busy stitching Russian flags to meet rising demand in Bamako, the capital of Mali, December 26, 2021On Friday, Mali’s transitional government has clarified that it is engaged with Russian military trainers even as French troops are drawing down. So, it is official that Russian security personnel are deployed to Mali.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, visiting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2019. (Kremlin)By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
Vladimir Putin was “defiant” during his end-of-year press conference last Thursday. The Russian president, who has held these impressive question-and-answer events for the past 20 years, was “bellicose.” He was “threatening.” So we read in the all-the-same-always American press.
By Pepe Escobar posted with permission and widely cross-posted
Coming straight from President Putin, it did sound like a bolt from the sky:
“We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.”
And that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive crunch – after an interminable series of polite red alerts coming from Moscow.
The latest unbiased facts on covid vaccine safety and effectiveness.
Please note: No medical advice; patients are asked to consult a doctor.
By Crofton Black: Need to verify your identity on a phone? Reset a password? Log in to a sensitive site or account? You’ll probably get a text message to check who you are. But it won’t come directly from your account provider. Instead, it will come via one or more middlemen: little-known bulk messaging companies that use the access they’ve brokered to hundreds of phone networks to send millions of messages cheaply and quickly around the world.
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America, which has become a de facto subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee.
How about Leaving the South Caucasus Alone?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/28/how-about-leaving-the-south-caucasus-alone/
Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/yes-there-were-10-good-things-about-2021/
Will 2022 be Better Than the Outgoing Year?
https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/27/will-2022-be-better-than-the-outgoing-year/
Big, Big Difference.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/big-big-difference.html
2022 — Year Of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/2022-year-of-major-power-conflict-over-ukraine/
Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Scholar and author Richard Sakwa analyzes the growing Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Russiagate fueled it.
Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via video conference outside Moscow, December 24, 2021The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend.
Twitter: Paul Singer vs. Jack DorseyBarely two years after becoming a major Twitter shareholder, US hedge fund billionaire Paul Elliott Singer has managed to oust Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. For Twitter users, this will likely mean more aggressive advertising and more political censorship. How can advanced Twitter users respond to this development? Ten suggestions.
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Warship formations of China and Russia sailed through the Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan on October 18, 2021 (File photo)A Kyodo News agency report on Friday cited Japanese government sources to the effect that Tokyo and Washington have drawn up a draft joint operation plan that would enable the setup of an attack base along the Nansei island chain in Japan’s southwest in the event of a Taiwan contingency.
The New Dark Age 